Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hero-Prince, Edward Golden was not always quite charming. Determined to do high deeds in Agassiz, he sometimes overacts with stock grimaces and attitudes, but on the whole he is worthy to waken Beauty. Claire Scott as the queen and Luay Barry as a servant both handled tiny parts in a handy fashion, and John Fenn rounds out the cast with a tidy, if undistinguished, performance as the king. Fenn's main claim to juvenile gratitude is a highly imaginative and decorative set plus more than routine lighting effects...
When Edmond Hillary and Tensing Norkay Conquered Everest as a Coronation present for Queen Elizabeth, they gave the rest of the world an added gift in the form of a dramatic and well-organized Technicolor documentary...
...impregnable position as Dean of St. Paul's in London (1911-34), he had to be neither a respecter of persons nor a mincer of words. Once, when the late Queen Mary commented on the beauty of a service at St. Paul's, the Dean replied: "I assure you, Ma'am, I find it most irksome." As for the church, it was "only a secular institution in which the half-educated speak to the half-converted...
Thousands may disagree, but hundreds of art lovers argue that Manhattan, not Paris, is the new queen city of contemporary painting. The "New York School" of abstract expressionist art, sparked by such painters as Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock, has long been characterized by big, wild, inchoate canvases meant to represent only moods. Now that seems to be changing; leaders and followers alike are beginning to knead chunks of the physical world into their abstractions...
Beat the Devil (Santana; United Artists), if it is any one thing at all, is as elaborate a shaggy-dog story as has ever been told. It was made up by Author Truman (Other Voices, Other Rooms) Capote and Director John (The African Queen) Huston during the spring season last year at Ravello, on the Gulf of Sorrento, apparently by stirring Strega fumes slowly into a novel by James Helvick. Because Huston happened to have $1,000,000 and several talented actors at his disposal, everybody fell to and turned the bibble-babble into a movie...